In Punchline, we find out that a lot more about Alexis Kaye aka Punchline and how she got involved with the Joker. Was she just an innocent girl who got dragged into his narrative or something more?

The entire comic is not what it seems, and I think it's important to take a step back and realise that it was a manipulation for the reader just as much as the characters. Take the podcast for example. I've seen a couple of comments about how unlikely it is that a random kid found the podcast by Alexis but no one else did. Let's be honest, one of the Bat-Family should have found that. I don't see Batman, and especially Batgirl missing that.

In the last few frames where Alexis/Punchline is signing off the last episode of the podcast, she is in her Punchline costume. Then when she appears at court she steps out of the car, and she's in the same costume. The podcast is set up to make it seem as though she created the whole thing long before that day. It's an epic journey of a young girl searching for something - but what if it isn't? Yes, she's supposed to be in jail, but we also see her earlier start something when the jail guards reveal themselves to be Joker loyalists.

It's more likely that what happened is that at that moment she hit publish on the podcast episodes. That's why they were never mentioned at her trial because they didn't exist. The entire thing was completely staged, and it was staged by the writers and artists for us as the reader to make it seem like it happened at different times. The scenes of her investigating the Joker's story may have never even happened, they were just how Cullen imagined her as he listened. ( )

Girls are still falling for The Joker? Haven't they learned from Harley Quinn? Not interested in this. ( )